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Re: Analysis for Comment/Edit - Israel/MIL - 090104 Update

Released on 2013-09-19 00:00 GMT

Email-ID

5451625

Date

2009-01-04 16:31:03

From

goodrich@stratfor.com

To

analysts@stratfor.com

looks good.

nate hughes wrote:

**Just talked to Stringer, he's on the Graphics Request

Display: Getty Images # 84166572
Caption: Smoke rises from Gaza City

Title: Israel/MIL - 090104 Update Map

Teaser

Stratfor tracks the military developments in the Gaza Strip.

Summary

<we can craft a good summary to be used every day for this update>

Analysis

Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip expanded dramatically overnight
and into Jan. 4. Thousands of Israeli troops and scores of tanks and
armored vehicles have reportedly poured into the territory. A second
major thrust appears to have cut Gaza City off from the rest of the
territory and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) appear to be surrounding
the territory's largest enclave.

<Stringer's map>

>From the Qarni Crossing, IDF troops have reportedly pushed all the way
to the Mediterranean coast, cutting off Gaza City from the rest of the
territory. Airstrikes on two bridges to the south of the territory have
further isolated north from south. Reports from Israeli Sky News have
also emerged of some 150 tanks and armored vehicles massing in the
former Israeli settlement of Netzarim, southwest of Gaza City - a force
potentially large enough for a limited raid into the city of 500,000
itself.

Whether the initial thrust from the northeast corner of the territory
was meant as a feint or remains an important axis of advance is unclear,
but it does appear that the IDF has breached the border with Gaza in
multiple locations and is moving to surround Gaza City. Artillery fire
there continued today.

With some 30 soldiers reported wounded, IDF casualties have thus far
reportedly been light, though fighting has been characterized as heavy
at times. But Israel has yet to attempt to enter places like Gaza City,
where fighting will be more intense. There have also not yet been actual
reports of Hamas' rumored
<http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20081231_israel_palestinian_territories_gaza_ground_incursion><anti-armor
capabilities.> The IDF has refuted Hamas claims that two Israeli
soldiers have been captured.

On the Palestinian side, airstrikes and artillery fire continued to take
a higher toll, with nearly 20 deaths reported so far today alone. The
Gaza Strip remains without power and communications infrastructure has
reportedly taken a big hit as well.

An airstrike has reportedly killed Zakaria al-Jamal, a battalion-level
commander of Hamas' military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades and
responsible for artillery rocket-launching squads in Gaza City. Other
airstrikes attempted to kill Hamas commanders Husam Hamdan and Muhammad
Maaruf - though the former was only wounded and the fate of the latter
has not been confirmed. Hamdan was targeted in Khan Yunis along with
Mohammed Hilo, who reportedly supervised fabrication and employment of
<http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/israel_upgraded_qassams_gaza><domestically-made
Qassam rockets> in that enclave.

Rocket fire continued Jan. 4, to include strikes by
<http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/israel_gaza_strip_and_grad_artillery_rocket><122mm
BM-21 Grad artillery rockets.> Though the days' total is hardly tallied
yet, there have been roughly 30 strikes. Though higher than yesterday,
it continues to be lighter than last week, when more than forty were
fell on Dec. 31 when what were reportedly
<http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20081230_israel_palestinian_territories_new_rocket><Iranian-made
Fajr-3 artillery rockets> were first used. The Hezbollah connection and
the potential for
<http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20090103_israel_lebanon_conflict_gaza_and_possible_northern_front><a
possible northern front> remain matters of concern.